The only reason Obama changed his mind started telling the truth in early May 2012 was that a North Carolina vote on a definition of marriage amendment to its constitution passed big time at that time, and LGBTQMIAPDLOLPLPLTH thought it would fail because it also prohibited non-marriage civil unions and they thought North Carolina was getting more “tolerant” because of all the left wingers infesting the Raleigh-Durham Triangle and for the fact that Obama eked out the state in 2008. But when it passed, despondent LGBTQMIAPDLOLPLPLTH activists and groups went to Obama and read him the Riot Act, note that around one in six Obama money bundlers is LGBTQMIAPDLOLPLPLTH.

And also, David, I’m so shocked that a politician would lie in order to get elected.

And of course Obama whines as if he’s the student who gets ten straight As on ten straight tests, then on the eleventh, he only gets a C, and to that he produces every “dog ate my homework” excuse in the book.

Talking heads are falling all over themselves trying to figure out why the President of the United States would debase himself and the office by letting someone whose claim to fame is eating cereal from a bathtub interview him. This would have been like in 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower letting himself be interviewed by someone who lived in an insane asylum.

This is not hard, people. Barack Obama is a low information man who happens to be doing a high information job. If he was not President, he would barely pay attention to hard news. From what I understand, even as President, he doesn’t much pay attention to hard news.

One other factor that can’t be overlooked here is that this is one of many examples of the inevitable and natural degradation that democratic republicanism causes.

Obama kvetches. This sounds like the tripe we hear all the time from blacks, that they supposedly have to work three times as hard as white people to get the same promotion or have six diplomas to get the same job that a white person can get with one diploma.

I will give him this much — When this mulatto with a high enough LSAT score impressed the Chicago white and Jewish gentry liberal crowd by reading a teleprompter such that they put him on the Presidential track, he had to read the teleprompter really well and read the words very eloquently.

SO WHY ALL THE FERGUSON HOOPLA? Last time the Dems and Sharpton made a big deal of a shooting, it was the Trayvon Martin case, hyped to keep up black turnout for 2012. But now there’s not an election. So why Ferguson, and why now? Polling indicates that most people aren’t all that sympathetic, and protests that tie up Interstates, etc. aren’t going to attract swing voters.

But it’s not about swing voters. It’s about the base. And it’s not about the Democratic Party’s base, but about certain leaders’ base within the Democratic Party. This may be best understood as an intra-party struggle. Obama is the champion of the urban-black wing of the party, and because of him that wing has been on top. But his star is fading, black voters are beginning to realize that they haven’t benefited economically, and the next Dem nominee — whether it’s Hillary Clinton, Jim Webb, or Elizabeth Warren — will be from the white gentry-liberal wing of the Democratic Party. The riots, the marches, the traffic-blocking are a way of telling them that the Sharpton wing is still a force to be reckoned with, and to improve its bargaining power between now and 2016. At least, that’s the only way this — not at all spontaneous — street theater makes sense.

On the one hand, I want to ridicule this theory from one end of the Earth to the other. As if one could encounter someone in the Ferguson mob either here or in other cities, and they’re going to tell you that they’re doing it to prevent a gentry-liberal from winning the Democrat nomination in 2016.

But that’s not the specific accusation here. Instapundit’s theory is that race arsonists and race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, various other powerful black preachers in a lot of cities, and maybe to a small extent, Barack Obama himself, are stirring this shit up to enhance their hand in internecine Democrat politics.

Remember, though, Barack Obama himself is not from the Sharpton wing. Far from being a militant street black supposedly in contrast with the gentry liberals, Obama himself is a gentry liberal who happens to have a colored face. The white gentry liberals of the Democrat Party loved Obama for being a credible politically savvy (enough) and oratorically elegant (if he’s on prompter) half black person with a high enough LSAT score; a talisman to relieve them of their white guilt. When Obama tried to be a street negro, and tried to launch a career based on that imagery, (think: Democrat Primary against Bobby Rush in 2000), he failed spectacularly. It’s only when he went back to being the white liberal’s magic mulatto that his political career finally took off. Though as late as the summer of 2007, in the minds of street blacks and other similar people, Obama wasn’t black enough, was a magic negro, and Jesse Jackson wanted to cut Obama’s nuts off. Once he started winning early Democrat primaries and caucuses in 2008, mainly on the backs of white liberals in states that had low black population percentages, that’s what changed the mind of street black politicos that some mixed race black person could actually win, and that’s when they got on the hopeychange train. From there, Obama won just about all the Democrat primaries in black-heavy states.

Also remember that Obama wasn’t born into nor did he grow up in the hood; his childhood was that of a mixed race boy and young man shuffling between Hawaii and Indonesia being immersed in whitasian (“white” + “Asian”) democratic leftism.